"The past year’s outbreak of conflict has laid bare the political and security implications of excessive energy dependence on autocratic regimes," writes @otilianutu.
Energy is now the heart international political and security concerns. Read more below https://t.co/ynuM3SnhU0
.@LawDavF explores how a year of war in Ukraine has exposed the flaws of Russia’s total-war model—and what Kyiv’s contrasting approach has revealed about classic warfare.
https://t.co/fPOqhusf9I
On Feb 16 3️⃣0️⃣ years from signing the Constitutive Act, the AmCham community welcomed PM @NicolaeCiuca HE Amb Kavalec 🇺🇸 @AmbasadaSUA & HE @DanAndreiMuraru 🇷🇴 for a festive CEO #Business Forum.
#AmCham30 - our commitment to invest in Romania’s future. Today, tomorrow, & beyond!
President Zelenskyy described US support as an investment in a future of peace and freedom, not charity.
Marc Grossman, @kvolker & senior fellow @EAnthonyWayne write about private sector involvement in reconstructing Ukraine. Read more here ⤵️
https://t.co/7vLdZd73Ev
"Climate change has kept Europe warm enough this winter to save it from Vladimir Putin’s energy crisis, but the respite may prove fleeting," writes Suriya Evans-Pritchard Jayanti in @TIME. https://t.co/nE6qP9yR8g
Being the mayor of Kherson, Ukraine, may feel more like a curse than an honor now. Halyna Luhova has been almost killed six times.
But she isn't giving up, even as Russian forces are sitting just across the river and shelling her city nearly every hour. https://t.co/CVOlFF3DB7
“What happens in Ukraine will be a benchmark for how countries prepare for and fight the next major conflict,” says the British Army officer in a guest commentary https://t.co/wrYW4g6jjQ
“Europeans are inundated with pop-up screens asking for their consent almost every time they surf the web. Most of the time, they click yes. To them, the GDPR is more annoying than effective.” @AndaBologa#DigitalAlliance https://t.co/FyIvrWJ5Ah
Why we pay so much attention to some tragedies and not others is bound up in questions of cause and effect. There is nothing political about an earthquake, we tell ourselves. But politics always plays a role in the impact of a natural disaster.
https://t.co/H0ucm8yCdG
Science has no gender! 🔬🧬🥼🔭
We need to support girls & empower more #WomenInScience to address global challenges & create a better future for all.
Saturday is the International Day of Women & Girls in Science. https://t.co/pBlTWYZOzQ via @UNESCO
´This was a natural disaster of vast proportions. But what made it so deadly and the suffering so immense was not nature itself. It was human-built systems of inequality and corruption.’
Elif Shafak on Erdoğan and the earthquake via @FT
https://t.co/bpWfMKAMEB
Energy security is top of agenda in a new way here at #wef23. The energy transition will be geopolitically disruptive—but it is more urgent than ever. For @wef, @OSullivanMeghan and I broke down some of the challenges we must address in the transition 🧵:
https://t.co/EpFJzc3bWF
“Time is running out to address critical global challenges.”
Read @borgebrende on how world leaders can adapt their understanding of geopolitics as cooperation wanes—and competition intensifies.
https://t.co/P4wjl3vczp
From geopolitics to food and energy, the world is facing unprecedented disruptions. Sustained collective action by the public and private sectors is the only path forward. @wef@McKinsey#wef23
https://t.co/TvUrulzoWf
Today we release our Global Risks Report 2023, produced in partnership with @MarshMcLennan and @Zurich.
Read it here: https://t.co/sy3FmJ9aYW #risks23#wef23
EU strategic autonomy, RIP - Joint Nato-EU declaration to be released today will enshrine "importance of the transatlantic bond" and state that stronger European armies are to support the US-led alliance, not offer an alternative to it https://t.co/uBWSAHW6x4 @FinancialTimes
✨ A special year lies ahead as we mark our 3️⃣0️⃣ anniversary - a celebration of the joint contribution of AmCham members to #Romania’s #growth during the past 30 years & a renewal of our commitment for investing in its #future!
Stay tuned to #AmCham30 & beyond!
Friend-shoring production out of China to Southeast Asia and India is a reminder that globalization is not dead, but rather that the future is Asian, not just Chinese: https://t.co/UIzf9QzrYB
@elisabethbraw